Analysis of procurements and the supply chain

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The information and data presented in the paragraph in an aggregated manner concern all companies included in the scope – please see Disclosing Sustainability: Methodological note- including the three companies operating in the water sector, Gesesa, GORI and AdF, which are not managed centrally, and excluding Berg, Demap and some FTV companies, which together account for less than 2% of the costs of materials and services of the companies in the consolidation area.

The 2021 tenders for the procurement of goods, the provision of services and the execution of works, had a total economic total economic value, as initially mentioned, of more than € 2 billion94, with a marked increase compared to 2020 (around € 1.2 billion). In absolute terms, the largest increase in amounts compared to the previous year was recorded for the item work (129%), followed by services (60%), while the item goods decreased somewhat (-12%) (see Table no. 36).

Chart no. 34 – Value of ordered goods, services and works and percentage on total (2021)
NOTE: Figures

chart 34

NOTE: Figures are rounded off to the nearest unit.

Observing the value of procurement for the business macro-areas - Networks Operations (electricity grids), Generation, Commercial, Water Operations, Engineering Operations, Environment Operations (waste-to-energy and environmental services) and Corporate (waste to energy and environmental services) and Corporate (Acea SpA) - the increase in the value of orders for both works and goods and services was concentrated in the Commercial area, which also provides energy efficiency services for buildings, and in the Water area (see chart 35 and table 36).

Chart no. 35 – Orders (goods, services, works) by business area (2020-2021)

Chart 35

NOTE: Figures are rounded off to the nearest unit. The Energy Infrastructure segment includes the company Areti, the Generation segment includes the companies Acea Produzione, Ecogena and FTV (Acea Solar and Acea Sun Capital). Energy (Commercial and Trading) includes Acea Energia, Acea8cento (until July 2020) and Acea Innovation. Water includes the companies: Acea Ato 2, Acea Ato 5, GORI, Gesesa, AdF. Engineering and Services includes Acea Elabori. Environment includes: Acea Ambiente, Aquaser and Acque industriali. Present in the Corporate segment is only Acea SpA.

As already mentioned, the procurement needs of the Group's com- panies included in the scope of consolidation in the year totalled 6,482 orders/contracts and involved 2,869 suppliers (13% more than the 2,529 in 2020). In terms of the geographic distribution of the suppliers, in 2021, most suppliers (48%) were in central Italy, of which 31% in Lazio, followed by northern Italy (31%), southern Italy and the islands (19%) and only 2% were foreign. The geograph- ical distribution of the value of the procurements among the macro-regions, in terms of percentage weight on the total amounts (€ 1,128 million for goods and services and € 926 million for works), is more concentrated in central Italy, with 51% of the item "goods and services" and 76% of the item "works", followed by northern Italy, which absorbs 38% of the item "goods and services" and 13% of the item "works". During the year, 38% of the value of “goods and ser- vices” and 59% of the value of “works” were concentrated in Lazio (Graphs nos. 36 and 37 and Table no. 37).

Chart no. 36 – Geographical distribution of the amounts for goods and services in Italy and abroad (2021)

Chart 36

NOTE: Figures are rounded off to the nearest unit.

Chart no. 37 – Geographical distribution of the amounts of works awarded in Italy (2021)

Chart 37

NOTE: Figures are rounded off to the nearest unit. In 2021, for the companies in the scope, the value of foreign procurement was zero.

Table no. 36 – Procurement data (2020-2021)

         
  u. m. 2020 2021 D% 2021/2020
VALUE OF PROCUREMENT THROUGH TENDERS
goods million € 297 262 -12%
services million € 540 866 60%
works million € 404 926 129%
total million € 1.241 2.054 66%
GOODS, SERVICES AND WORKS AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL ORDERS
goods % 24% 13% -46%
services % 44% 42% -4%
works % 33% 45% 39%
VALUE OF ORDERS BY BUSINESS AREA
Energy Infrastructure million € 212 174 -18%
Generation million € 28 25 -13%
Energy (commercial and trading) million € 86 429 401%
Water million € 633 996 57%
Engineering and services million € 37 87 136%
Environment million € 82 136 66%
Corporate million € 162 207 28%
NUMBER OF PURCHASE ORDERS MANAGED
POs for goods, services and works no. 6.552 6.482 -1%

NOTE: all the figures in the table are rounded off to the nearest unit.

Table no. 37 – Procurement nationwide (2020-2021)

           
  u. m. 2020 as % of total 2021 as % of total
NUMBER OF SUPPLIERS OF GOODS, SERVICES AND WORKS NATIONWIDE
suppliers north Italy no. 819 33% 893 31%
suppliers central Italy no. 1147 45% 1.366 48%
suppliers Lazio no. 757 30% 897 31%
suppliers south Italy and islands no. 516 20% 556 19%
foreign suppliers no. 47 2% 54 2%
total suppliers no. 2.529 100% 2.869 100%
GEOGRAPHICAL BREAKDOWN OF AMOUNTS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES
Value of orders from Northern Italy million € 365 43% 426 38%
Value of orders from Central Italy million € 375 45% 575 51%
Value of orders from Lazio million € 252 30% 426 38%
Value of orders from southern Italy and islands million € 75 9% 117 10%
Value of orders abroad million € 22 3% 10 1%
total value of orders for goods and services million € 837 100% 1.128 100%
GEOGRAPHICAL BREAKDOWN OF AMOUNTS FOR WORKS
value of orders from Northern Italy million € 133 33% 118 13%
value of orders from Central Italy million € 195 48% 701 76%
value of orders from Lazio million € 177 44% 546 59%
value of orders from southern Italy and islands million € 68 17% 107 11%
value of orders abroad million € 8 2% 0 0%
total ordered for works million € 404 100% 926 100%

NOTE: all the figures in the table are rounded off to the nearest unit. The “northern Italy” geographical area includes Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria; “central Italy” includes Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Latium, Abruzzo and Molise; “southern Italy and islands” includes Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia. The geographical area “abroad” includes suppliers that are mainly European.

94The amount of purchases managed at the centralised level refers to tenders awarded during the year, without any distinction between investments and operating cost, annual and multi-annual contracts. Purchases of commodities, regularisation orders and intercompany orders are excluded. The figures for the three water companies that are not centrally managed, for a total of € 278 million, do include all purchase types

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